Seeking a Promotion | Crucial Skills

Seeking a Promotion | Crucial Skills: Of course you get emotional about your role in the company you cofounded! This company is your brainchild; you’ve invested your blood, sweat, and tears. Any conversation about your role going forward is high stakes indeed. And strong emotions are often the biggest barrier to effectively influencing others. As you take stock of the company’s needs, and of the skills you need in order to fulfill an executive role, you are wise to seek the new CEO’s mentorship. So how do you have the crucial conversation with the CEO about taking on an executive role?

Career advice you should never follow

With so much career advice floating around the interwebs, some of it is bound to be poor. Luckily we here at Levo don’t just trust the haphazardly doled-out opinions of self-appointed “leadership experts” and other dubious characters. We go straight to the top—men and women who have worked their way to massive career success — and ask them. What strategies actually worked for them? Which career buzz phrases should be ignored completely? Here are a few pieces of career advice that you should never follow.



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5 Ways People Kill Their Career Potential...And May Not Realize It

5 Ways People Kill Their Career Potential...And May Not Realize It: As researchers who study appreciation and value creation in the workplace, it would be easy for us to write an article about killing career potential (both yours and your coworkers) by being a jerk at work. But, that’s not the only thing that kills potential.

We were curious about the opposite of the jerk—nice people who seemingly do everything by the book, meeting expectations, getting along, and are engaged. We’re curious about the people who are committed, and yet never seem to get ahead—they don’t get significant raises, promotions, or recognition for doing outstanding work. Why?

5 Thoughts That Crush Success | Fox Small Business Center

5 Thoughts That Crush Success | Fox Small Business Center: You’ll hear that successful people think differently -- that they are somehow hard-wired for high performance. There's the notion that some entrepreneurs perfectly combine analytical and reasoning skills with optimism, creativity, problem solving and people skills.

But successful people entertain the same kind of negative and self-limiting thoughts that everyone else has. What differs is their identification and reaction to them.

Here's a roundup of thoughts that absolutely limit, kill, crush and smash success. Catch these thoughts as they arise and flip them on their head.